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My response to the Vermont Assembly's passage of a "high capacity ammunition feeding device" ban.

Want to stop school shootings? Cold? A gun locker at every high school, secured by the local national guard. Daily classes for every student with parent permission, and guard approval, preparing them for

Two weeks ago, I waxed damn near poetic about the Elm programming language. Since then, I've made fully functional my first Elm webapp, Kakuro-Dojo. I still have plenty more features to add, but it's playable,

I reported two months back on starting a JavaScript app called Kakuro Master. I worked on it for a little while, but discovered that generating new board layouts is hard, so I lost interest. Well, my interest

In today's political-correctness-über-alles world, being male is no longer OK. Feminazis refuse to allow us to be who we are. We work hard at living up to their expectations, but it ain't easy. And I get

I now know of three mobile Steem apps. By Matthew Brady, Public Domain @steemapp's Steemy is written in native Swift for iOS and Java for Android. @str11ngfello is doing the iOS version. @cyonic is working

I am considering running a Steem witness node. So I did a Google search for "howto run a steemit witness node" (without the quotes), and the first result was @pfunk's A Full Steemit User's Guide

Caricature by DonkeyHotey -- Attribution-ShareAlike License Donald and Hillary go into a bakery on the campaign trail. As soon as they enter the bakery, Hillary steals three pastries and puts them in her

A bunch of things came together, causing me to stay up until 2am, writing the initial JavaScript for a new iOS and Android game, and web site. I got hooked on Kakuro. @good-karma's work on Steem Mobile

I'm Bill St. Clair. I started doing political blogging in 1999, first on Dave Winer's Edit this Page, then using BlogMax, an Emacs package I wrote, then Drupal, and finally, Lisplog, a lisp-based blogging

I write Steemit posts in markdown, using the Emacs markdown-mode to simplify entry of links and images. I keep them in a directory on my computer, which I mirror to my web site (with rsyncit). The files

rsyncit is a shell script that I use to synchronize directories on my computer with directories on the many web sites I administer. It allows me to place a file in a directory I want to sync that contains

Kakuro is a cross-sums puzzle game, sort of a crossword puzzle with numbers. Each horizontal or vertical "clue" is the sum of the 1 to 9 numbers in its solution squares. Each solution square

I've been making coffee with an Aeropress, one cup at a time, for many years now. Recently I discovered, at Starbucks, cold brewed coffee. Instant love. So how to make it? Beginner's mind suggested the

What I Believe by Bill St. Clair 10 March 2016 As I approach sixty years on the planet, it has become clear that my personal beliefs are pretty much set. Not that I'm closed to changing my mind should